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Post by schwartzie on Dec 2, 2015 20:10:34 GMT -5
POSSIBLY 25 DEAD AFTER ARMED SHOOTERS OPEN FIRE AT CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE CENTER
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Post by schwartzie on Dec 2, 2015 20:12:42 GMT -5
14 Dead, 17 More Wounded In San Bernardino Shooting Attack; 1 Suspect Dead, 1 At LargeDecember 2, 2015 4:02 PM Filed Under: San Bernardino, San Bernardino Shooting, Shooting SAN BERNARDINO (CBSLA.com) — Fourteen people were confirmed killed and 17 more wounded in a mass shooting at a San Bernardino community social services building. “We do have some preliminary numbers of upwards of 14 people that are dead and upwards of 14 people that are injured,” said Chief Jarrod Burguan of San Bernardino Police. The number of injured was later upped to 17. At least ten of the injured are reportedly in critical condition. The shooting was first reported at about 10:59 a.m. at the Inland Regional Center, 1365 South Waterman Avenue. The gunfire erupted in a conference room where the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health was holding a banquet, said Maybeth Field, president and CEO of the social services center. She said the building houses at least 25 employees as well as a library and conference center. Authorities were still clearing the “massive facility” as of 2:15 p.m., Burguan said. “We do not have any identification on who those suspects are, we do not have any motive for the shooting at this point,” said Burguan. “The only information I have at this point is they came prepared to do what they did and that they were on a mission.” He added it’s believed the suspects — who were armed with long guns, not handguns — had fled, possibly in a dark-colored SUV. Around 3:15 p.m. there was a report of a brief chase between law enforcement and possible suspects. Officers pointed their guns at the vehicle as it stopped not from the crime scene. Sky9’s Stu Mundel reported that a “man was deceased” next to the vehicle. The vehicle was riddled with bullets. Officials did not say if the deceased was connected to the earlier carnage at the social services building. At 3:35 p.m., Mundel listened to scanner traffic and reported that “all suspects” were accounted for; by 4:30 p.m. officials said one suspect was dead and another was at large. An officer was reported down but apparently that officer only suffered a graze wound, according to reports from the scene. SWAT officers made a methodical search house-by=house about five blocks from where police and the suspects exchanged gunfire. San Bernardino police Sgt. Vicki Cervantes said that there are believed to be multiple shooters wearing military-style gear. While no motive for the shooting was immediately known, FBI Asst. Director David Bowdich told reporters, “I will tell you right now, we do not know if this is a terrorist incident.” People waiting to be reunited with loved ones who were at or working in the Inland Regional Center should go to the Hernandez Center at 3rd St. and Sierra Way, where police will meet with them. Patients have been taken to several local hospitals, including Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, St. Bernardine Medical Center and Loma Linda University Medical Center. Uninjured workers were shuttled to a church in Colton. President Barack Obama was briefed on the attack by his homeland security adviser, and Gov. Jerry Brown was also reported to be monitoring the situation. Brown issued the following statement: “Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims’ families and everyone affected by the brutal attack. California will spare no effort in bringing these killers to justice.” Hundreds of people with their hands raised were seen by Chopper 9 being evacuated from the building. Many were escorted to the San Bernardino Public Golf Course across the street. IMG_1029 CBS2/KCAL9’s Crystal Cruz said she spoke to a man who said he received several texts from his daughter Holly, who was inside the building when the shooting began. The first text read: “Dad shooting at my work, shot people in office. Waiting for cops to catch him. Pray for us.” The father told Cruz he texted back to his daughter, “Hide find a good spot hide now.” Holly texted back: “I am but we are locked in an office. Cops SWAT helicopter, everything here.” Another woman who identified herself as Monique said she received a text from her sister Gina, who was inside the building, that read: “There’s a shoot out at my work I’m scared.” Paul Lacroix, whose son Garrett works inside the Inland Resource Center, said he told his son to hunker down, turn his cell phone off and to not make any noise. “It’s just not good,” Lacroix said of the situation. “It’s something that we’re starting to learn to have to live with. We just have to learn to take better stands for what we’re doing.” On speaker phone, Garrett Lacroix said that people inside the building were shook up and were being given water bottles. “The fire alarm went off, but then someone started shouting in the halls there was a possible bomb so we were all told to get back into our office. Eventually we saw officers with vests and automatic weapons so we retreated to our room,” Garrett Lacroix said. Garrett said a message over the intercom later instructed them to exit with their hands in the air and nothing in them. Mark Scroggins was waiting outside the building, waiting for word of his daughter, who works inside. “This is crazy. There’s too many shootings. too many bad things going on out here. You hear about it, but this is insane. This is crazy,” he said. Authorities advised all motorists to stay away from the area. The Inland Regional Center is a sprawling three-story center serving people with developmental disabilities in San Bernardino and Riverside counties. The non-profit private agency, whose site crashed due to traffic due to news of the shooting, employs nearly 700 people and serves more than 30,000 residents with developmental disabilities for ages ranging from infants to seniors 60 years and older, according to the center’s Facebook page. The agency had just celebrated with a holiday party the day before. Several other local and federal agencies were also at the scene to assist San Bernardino Police in the incident. One woman at the scene said she was not waiting on anyone inside the Inland Regional Center, but on her children at the nearby Norton Space and Aeronautics Academy, a charter school. “I actually have kids at the school on the next block, and they’re on lockdown,” she said. “We can’t get them, they can’t come out. I tried going over there, but they won’t let me go.” San Bernardino City Unified School District officials said all its schools and offices were placed on full lockdown, but that each campus was scheduled to dismiss student on time. Burguan said that federal and public buildings have also been locked down. “As far as people in the area, we’re doing everything we can to keep this area safe. We are addressing other facilities in the area we think may be similar, but we don’t have any other information or any credible threats to any other facilities at this point,” Burguan said. “Obviously we are all on a heightened sense of alert. We would ask the public that they be on a heightened sense of alert, that they’re watching out for those things and if they come across information, contact us and let us investigate.” This is a breaking news report. More information will be added as it comes in. link
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Post by Midnight on Dec 2, 2015 22:24:26 GMT -5
San Bernardino Shooting: Flight Radar Shows Multiple Aircraft Circling City
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Post by Berean on Dec 2, 2015 22:59:14 GMT -5
"Middle Eastern" males? Gee, what a surprise...NOT! “Middle Eastern Males” Sought in #SanBernardino Mass Shooting at Christmas Party, 14 Confirmed DEADByPamela Geller on December 2, 2015 Jihad in America 315 Comments UPDATE: 14 dead, 14 wounded. A massive shooting is underway in San Bernardino at the Inland Regional Center. The killers are at large. Screen Shot 2015-12-02 at 3.45.34 PM “Middle eastern male, beard, camo shorts and a headset..,”according to eyewitness. “The San Diego Tribune reports: Riverside police dispatchers have broadcast a general advisory that the suspects involved in the shootings in San Bernardino may have fled in a black GMC Yukon, heading northbound on Waterman Avenue, roughly 40 minutes ago. The broadcast indicated there were unconfirmed reports the suspects were male and of Middle Eastern origin, “armed with AK-47s and wearing body armor.” The broadcast was part of a region-wide alert issued by the San Bernardino Police Department. Shooter (one of three) walked into a Christmas party and started firing. Police were searching for up to three suspects Wednesday in connection with a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, where as many as 20 people were wounded. Reports: 12 dead in San Bernardino shooting CONFIRMED via LA newspaper: Suspects have left via black SUV and still are at large. At least 12 people dead and eight injured in mass shooting inside a California learning disability center as police hunt for three ‘white men dressed in ski masks and military gear’ Local reports suggest shooting occurred at the Inland Regional Center on South Waterman Avenue in San Bernardino San Bernardino Fire Department sent out first tweet about shooting in progress shortly after 11am local time SWAT team is on the scene on South Waterman Avenue, along with Police are looking for up to three male gunmen dressed in military gear and ski masks Bomb squad is said to be in the process of trying to neutralize apparent explosive device left at the scene (Daily Mail) Screen Shot 2015-12-02 at 3.19.25 PM Screen Shot 2015-12-02 at 3.19.16 PM It was at a Christmas party going on at the time the Inland Regional Center -a place for the developmentally disabled.. one news site said 12 confirmed dead. Terry Petit says he got a text from his daughter saying she was hiding after gunfire erupted at the social services facility in Southern California where she works. Petit choked back tears Wednesday as he read the texts for reporters outside Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino. He says she wrote: “People shot. In the office waiting for cops. Pray for us. I am locked in an office.” Full story, lots of pictures and tweets at the link |
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Post by J.J.Gibbs on Dec 2, 2015 23:48:14 GMT -5
I'll bet anything Obama calls this "workplace violence!"  EXCLUSIVE: Father of San Bernardino shooting suspect Syed Farook says son worked as health tech inspecting restaurants, hotelsBY Nancy Dillon, Denis Slattery NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Wednesday, December 2, 2015, 11:11 PM ONE OF the suspects in Wednesday’s mass shooting in California was identified as a young father who worked for the county agency that had been holding a holiday party when the carnage unfolded.Syed Farook, believed to be 30, was linked to the horrific slaughter that left 14 dead at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. Farook’s father was shocked to learn of his son’s possible involvement in the attack. “I haven’t heard anything,” the elder Syed Farook told the Daily News. “He was very religious. He would go to work, come back, go to pray, come back. He’s Muslim.” The shell-shocked dad said his son worked as a health technician inspecting restaurants and hotels and graduated from La Sierra High School in 2003. After a press conference, police report that two suspects involved in the San Bernardino shooting, one male and one female, are confirmed dead. A third suspect has been detained and all suspects were wearing tactical gear during the shooting. According to the San Bernardino police chief, all suspects are now down and one officer was wounded in the standoff with the armed suspects. Law enforcement search for a suspect in a mass shooting at a Southern California social services center in San Bernardino, California. A body is seen on the street, likely of one of the shooting suspects, as police are involved in a standoff with the others. It has been reported that three gunmen opened fire inside of a San Bernardino, California center for the developmentally disabled killing at least 14 before fleeing. View Gallery Shooting in San Bernardino, California After police announced two suspects — a male and a female — were dead following a car chase and shootout with police, the FBI began a search of a nearby Redlands apartment linked to the younger Farook’s family. Police said that there had been a dispute during the San Bernardino County Department of Health holiday event at the Inland Regional Center The Los Angeles Times reported Farook bolted from the holiday bash after arguing with another attendee, and then returned a short time later with the other two shooters. The elder Farook said he hasn’t seen his son in some time. “He’s married and has a kid. We’re estranged because my wife got the divorce, and they are together,” the dad said. “She doesn’t want to see me.” Longtime neighbors in Riverside were shocked to hear Farook could be involved with such a brutal attack. “He was quiet but always polite,” Maria Gutierrez told The News. “Maybe two years ago he became more religious. He grew a beard and started to wear religious clothing. The long shirt that’s like a dress and the cap on his head.” “I know he was very smart. He went to college early. He and his brother were always working in the garage on cars. Until like 11 p.m. at night. I think his mom was a nurse and his older brother was in the military.” “If it’s him, I’m very surprised. Can you imagine? They were my neighbors for so many years. I never would guess.” link |
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Post by schwartzie on Dec 3, 2015 20:46:20 GMT -5
You sure called it right, Gibbs! Obama says it’s possible shooting was ‘workplace related’ . . . Giuliani: ‘you’re a moron’December 3, 2015 | Tom Tillison | 6 Comments | Print Article President Obama said it’s too early to tell whether Wednesday’s shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., was “terrorist-related,” insisting that it’s “possible” that it was workplace related violence. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani thinks it’s possible only a “moron” would come up with such a conclusion. “If you can’t come to a conclusion at this point that this was an act of terror … you’re a moron,” he said early Thursday in an appearance on Fox News. Keep in mind, the Muslim couple responsible for the attack that killed up to 14 people, Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, were wearing body armor and carrying assault rifles when they opened fire at a county health department office party at the Inland Regional Center. And were wearing GoPro cameras when they were killed. Tweet “It is possible this is terrorist related,” Obama said Thursday while speaking on the shooting. “We don’t know. It is also possible this was workplace related.” The president said the FBI needs to explore “the nature of the work place relationship” between Farook and the county health department before a determination can be made — Farook worked at the agency. This coming from an administration that saw fit to label the 2009 Fort Hood shooting by Nidal Malik Hasan workplace violence. The U.S. Army major killed 13 people and injured another 30 after shouting “Allahu Akbar.” Obama was not as hesitant to call for gun control measures. “Right now, it’s just too easy,” he said of individuals being able to obtain firearms. “We’re gonna have to, I think, search ourselves as a society to make sure we can take basic steps that would make it harder, not impossible, but harder, for individuals to get access to weapons.” link |
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Post by PurplePuppy on Dec 4, 2015 0:21:37 GMT -5
Here’s What the San Bernardino Shooters Did With Their 6-Month-Old Right Before Killing 14 People Dec 3, 2015 Brian Cunningham A couple who died in a hail of bullets after allegedly killing 14 people during a Christmas party at a state-run center for people with developmental disabilities left their six-month-old daughter with her grandmother before the onslaught. U.S.-born Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and wife Tashfeen Malik, 27, were killed in a shootout with police more than four hours after the rampage at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, on Wednesday. Farhan Khan told NBC News that his brother-in-law Farook and wife left their baby girl with with Farook’s mother on Wednesday, claiming they they had a doctor’s appointment. The grandparents first became worried when they got a call from the media at around 2 p.m. asking if they knew Farook was a suspect in the shooting, according to Khan, who is married to Farook’s sister. Khan said he had spoke to Farook a week ago, adding: “Why would he do something like this?” He added that Farook and Malik had been married for about two years. link
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Post by Berean on Dec 4, 2015 0:48:05 GMT -5
San Bernardino shooting: Policeman speaks of carnage at scene
38 minutes ago an Farook is seen in his California Department of Motor Vehicles photo San Bernardino shooting San Bernardino shooting: What we know 'It's crazy they lived next door' What makes this shooting different? San Bernardino shooting in numbers One of the first police officers to respond to deadly shootings at a social service centre in California has spoken of scenes of "unspeakable" carnage. Lt Mike Madden said he and officers who arrived later saw dead bodies and had to pass injured people as they tried to "engage the shooters" on Wednesday. Officials say a husband and wife shot dead 14 people and wounded 21 in the city of San Bernardino. Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, were killed in a shootout. Bomb equipment, weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition were later found in the attackers' home. Media captionLt Mike Madden from San Bernardino Police was one of the first responders on the scene The authorities have still not found a motive for the attack. "It was unspeakable, the carnage that we were seeing," Lt Madden told a news conference. "The number of people who were injured and unfortunately already dead and the pure panic on the face of those individuals that were still in need and needing to be safe." He said he and other police officers led about 50 people out of the centre's conference room. "Then we went further into the building and that was a difficult choice to have to make as well, passing people that we knew were injured and in need of assistance," Lt Madden said. It was the deadliest mass shooting in the US since 26 people were killed at a school in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012 "But our goal at that time had to be trying to locate the shooters and deal with them." Police said between 75-80 people were at the centre when the shooting began. The names of the victims have now been released by San Bernardino's coroner. The youngest victim was 26 and the oldest was 60. Who are the victims? Police said the attack indicated there had been "some degree of planning". Local police chief Jarrod Burguan said it appeared that the duo was prepared to carry out another attack. "There was obviously a mission here. We know that. We do not know why. We don't know if this was the intended target or if there was something that triggered him to do this immediately," said David Bowdich, assistant director of the FBI's Los Angeles office. In the shootout with police hours after the attack, Farook and Malik fired 76 rounds of ammunition at the officers and the officers fired 380 rounds back. Two police officers were injured during the pursuit. Farook had been in contact with known Islamic radicals on social media, unnamed US intelligence officials said. President Barack Obama said the FBI had taken over the investigation from local authorities. "It is possible that this was terrorist-related, but we don't know. It's also possible that this was workplace-related," Mr Obama said. The FBI cautioned that the authorities needed time to investigate. San Bernardino is the deadliest mass shooting in the US since 26 people were killed at a school in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012. Videos at link
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Post by Shoshanna on Dec 4, 2015 11:32:44 GMT -5
San Bernardino jihad killer was given green card after background checks from FBI and DHSByPamela Geller on December 4, 2015 Jihad in America This speaks volumes. It is a stunning indictment of Obama’s scheme to flood the U.S. with hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees. He says they will all be “vetted.” How is he going to “vet” them? The FBI and DHS vetted Tashfeen Malik, and now 14 Americans are dead. “Rampage killers led secret life, hiding plans and weapons,” by Laura J. Nelson, Soumya Karlamangla and Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times, December 3, 2015: Early Wednesday morning, Syed Rizwan Farook asked his mother for the sort of favor grandmothers love to grant: A few hours of baby-sitting. Farook told her that he and his wife, Tashfeen, had a doctor’s appointment and didn’t want to take their 6-month-old daughter. In an account of the conversation provided by a relative through a local Islamic leader, the grandmother agreed. She was caring for the child at the couple’s Redlands home when news of a mass shooting in nearby San Bernardino broke. Fearing her son and daughter-in-law were victims, “she started calling. No answer,” said Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Los Angeles office. It was only after reporters started phoning her that she realized the couple were the assailants. That Farook’s own mother had apparently sensed nothing wrong underscored a feeling among investigators and acquaintances Thursday that the couple responsible for the massacre at a holiday party inside the Inland Regional Center scrupulously concealed their views, plans and a cache of weapons and explosives. Of particular interest to investigators is the relationship between Farook, a 28-year-old U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, a Pakistani national. While his upbringing and adult life in Riverside is chronicled in school files, work documents and other records, little is known publicly about her. San Bernardino shooting victims: Who they were San Bernardino shooting victims: Who they were Authorities said Thursday that she was more than just an accomplice. At one point as the couple attempted to elude police, Malik fired an assault rifle out the back window of their sport utility vehicle at pursuing officers. Nizaam Ali, who worshipped with Farook at a San Bernardino mosque, said he had met Malik on a few occasions, but she wore a head scarf that obscured her face. “If you asked me how she looked, I couldn’t tell you,” Ali said. The couple met online a few years ago and married last year in Islam’s holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, according to co-workers at the public health department and others who knew them. The Saudi Embassy in Washington confirmed that Farook spent nine days in the kingdom in summer 2014. Authorities said that when he returned to the U.S. in July 2014, he brought Malik with him on a fiancee visa. After a background check by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, she was granted a conditional green card last summer. The couple held a walima, a celebration after the wedding, at the Islamic Center of Riverside for people who couldn’t attend the Saudi ceremony. Ali said a few hundred people attended. The couple’s daughter was born in the spring and co-workers at the San Bernardino County Public Health Department, where Farook worked for five years as an inspector, said some of them had thrown him a baby shower. An online baby registry in Malik’s name listed a large box of Pampers, Johnson’s safety swabs, a car seat and baby wash. The idea of a new mother helping carry out a mass murder perplexed many. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who had a classified FBI briefing on the shooting Thursday, said leaving an infant for a suicide mission was “not something a woman would easily do.” “So it’s going to be very interesting for me to see what her background was, what level of animus she had, because she had to have a considerable level,” Feinstein said. Meanwhile, acquaintances and colleagues of Farook were struggling to reconcile the soft-spoken man they knew with the masked rampage killer who shot up a room filled with co-workers. At the Islamic Center of Riverside, where Farook had worshipped until about two years ago, mosque director Mustapha Kuko described him as quiet, private and devoted to Koran study. “He knows that we believe that to take one life is to take all life. So for him to do the opposite of what we as Muslims believe … I don’t know,” Kuko said. One victim, who worked in the same department as Farook, was also a member of the congregation, he said. “He shot her,” Kuko said. “Point blank.” The victim’s husband reported she is in stable condition, he said. Recently, Farook had worshipped at a San Bernardino mosque, Dar-Al-Uloom Al-Islamiyah of America. Farook was “a very nice person, very soft,” said Ali, a mosque regular. He said Farook had memorized the Koran, a rare accomplishment for even devout Muslims. According to law enforcement, Farook traveled to Saudi Arabia in 2013 during the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca that all Muslims who are able should perform at least once in their lives. Another congregant saw Farook at the mosque a few weeks ago. Gasser Shehata said Farook had hurt not just his victims, but his own child…. link
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Post by PrisonerOfHope on Dec 4, 2015 16:10:03 GMT -5
Female Attacker Reportedly Pledged Allegiance to ISIS Before MassacreSan Bernardino shooting suspect Syed Rizwan Farook. DMV photo Fox News | Dec 04, 2015 The mysterious Pakistani woman who with her husband gunned down 14 Wednesday at a Southern California holiday party reportedly pledged her allegiance to ISIS before the massacre, according to a government source, in what appears to be concrete evidence that the rampage was at least inspired, if not directed, by the terrorist group. Tashfeen Malik is believed to have posted her pledge to ISIS leader and self-proclaimed "caliph" Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on or around the time of the attack, in which she and her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, stormed a San Bernardino party for his co-workers before escaping. The pair died hours later in a shootout with police, and in the aftermath the 29-year-old Pakistani woman has remained largely a name without a face. No confirmed pictures of her have surfaced, and few details have emerged. The pledge, posted on Facebook under another name and then deleted, was reported by The Associated Press, citing federal sources. It provided a fresh clue to Malik's identity and motivation. The aura of mystery surrounding Malik has given rise to suspicions she may have been the radicalizing force who turned her new husband from an aloof county restaurant inspector into her cohort in carnage, an Islamist fanatic capable of murdering co-workers who had embraced him for years. "Tashfeen remains the biggest mystery," said a leader of the area's Pakistani-American Muslim community. "She's the one no one knows anything about and has little to no presence on the Internet or having interacted with others in the Muslim community." The aura of mystery surrounding Malik has given rise to suspicions she may have been the radicalizing force who turned her new husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, from an aloof county restaurant inspector into her cohort in carnage, an Islamist fanatic capable of murdering co-workers who had embraced him for years. What is known is that Malik met Farook online and that the two became engaged after Farook traveled to Saudi Arabia in September 2013. Malik applied for a K-1 visa at the American embassy in Islamabad in May, 2014 and two months later Farook again traveled to Saudi Arabia, met her there and brought her to the U.S. on a K-1 visa, a 90-day visa given to fiancés planning to marry Americans. They were married on Aug. 16, 2014, in nearby Riverside County, Calif. according to their marriage license. The marriage and passage of criminal and national security background checks using FBI and Department of Homeland Security databases resulted in a conditional green card for Malik in July 2015, two months after she gave birth to their baby daughter. Malik and Farook, an American citizen born in Chicago and raised in Southern California by parents of Pakistani descent, lived with their daughter and his mother, Rafia Farook, in a Redlands, Calif., apartment described by one investigator as an "IED factory" and ammo arsenal. However, Farook's mother claimed not to have suspected any potential plots or problems pertaining to her son and daughter-in-law, telling others that the weaponry didn't raise any eyebrows as he "was always into guns" from a young age and shooting was very much a part of his life. Federal officials confirmed that the four guns Malik and Farook carried when they were killed in a shootout Wednesday afternoon, some three hours after storming the San Bernardino social services facility where his department was holding a holiday party, were purchased legally. There have been reports Farook had ties to radicals in Pakistan and had a trip made there in recent years, but a source connected to the Pakistani Consulate in Los Angeles told FoxNews.com that he did not possess a Pakistani passport and that there is no record of him applying for a visa to travel to Pakistan through his local consulate. That did not preclude the possibility that he may have entered the country illegally or obtained a visa overseas or elsewhere. Farook is a third-generation American from a family hailing from Karachi. Sources close to his family insisted that his marriage to Malik was not arranged. He told co-workers, who hosted a baby shower for him and his wife earlier this year, that Malik was a pharmacist. The California Board of Pharmacy has no record of her working as either a pharmacist or a pharmacist's assistant. Prior to their marriage, Farook had multiple online dating profiles claiming he was a Sunni Muslim from a "religious but modern family" and that he was "looking for a girl who has the same outlook, wear hijab, but live life to the fullest, be my partner for snowboarding, to go out and eat with friends, go camping, working on cars with me." Farook was remembered as reserved by co-workers, who said he had grown his beard out in recent months – often a sign among Muslims of heightened religious devotion. He also had gotten into several heated arguments with a co-worker, Nicholas Thalasinos, about Islam. Thalasinos reportedly questioned whether Farook's faith was truly a "religion of peace." He was one of the 14 killed in Wednesday's attack. Neither Malik nor Farook had a criminal record, and the couple did not mix with the larger Pakistani-American community, and few people claim to have seen, let alone met, Malik, including neighbors. The Pakistani-American Muslim community leader, who asked that his name not be used, said the community believes is is clear that someone radicalized Farook. "This event has shaken everyone," said the source. "The fact that Syed and his wife seemed to be so removed from the community and no one really knows much about him or his wife at all can often be a key indicator something is wrong." link
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Post by schwartzie on Dec 4, 2015 19:26:19 GMT -5
Several articles I've seen talk about how these terrorists hurt their own kid. Sorry, I don't see it - the little girl is better off without parents like that, and she's young enough to not remember them. San Bernardino jihad killer was given green card after background checks from FBI and DHSByPamela Geller on December 4, 2015 This speaks volumes. It is a stunning indictment of Obama’s scheme to flood the U.S. with hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees. He says they will all be “vetted.” How is he going to “vet” them? The FBI and DHS vetted Tashfeen Malik, and now 14 Americans are dead. “Rampage killers led secret life, hiding plans and weapons,” by Laura J. Nelson, Soumya Karlamangla and Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times, December 3, 2015: Early Wednesday morning, Syed Rizwan Farook asked his mother for the sort of favor grandmothers love to grant: A few hours of baby-sitting. Farook told her that he and his wife, Tashfeen, had a doctor’s appointment and didn’t want to take their 6-month-old daughter. In an account of the conversation provided by a relative through a local Islamic leader, the grandmother agreed. She was caring for the child at the couple’s Redlands home when news of a mass shooting in nearby San Bernardino broke. Fearing her son and daughter-in-law were victims, “she started calling. No answer,” said Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Los Angeles office. It was only after reporters started phoning her that she realized the couple were the assailants. That Farook’s own mother had apparently sensed nothing wrong underscored a feeling among investigators and acquaintances Thursday that the couple responsible for the massacre at a holiday party inside the Inland Regional Center scrupulously concealed their views, plans and a cache of weapons and explosives. Of particular interest to investigators is the relationship between Farook, a 28-year-old U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, a Pakistani national. While his upbringing and adult life in Riverside is chronicled in school files, work documents and other records, little is known publicly about her. Authorities said Thursday that she was more than just an accomplice. At one point as the couple attempted to elude police, Malik fired an assault rifle out the back window of their sport utility vehicle at pursuing officers. Nizaam Ali, who worshipped with Farook at a San Bernardino mosque, said he had met Malik on a few occasions, but she wore a head scarf that obscured her face. “If you asked me how she looked, I couldn’t tell you,” Ali said. The couple met online a few years ago and married last year in Islam’s holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, according to co-workers at the public health department and others who knew them. The Saudi Embassy in Washington confirmed that Farook spent nine days in the kingdom in summer 2014. Authorities said that when he returned to the U.S. in July 2014, he brought Malik with him on a fiancee visa. After a background check by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, she was granted a conditional green card last summer. The couple held a walima, a celebration after the wedding, at the Islamic Center of Riverside for people who couldn’t attend the Saudi ceremony. Ali said a few hundred people attended. The couple’s daughter was born in the spring and co-workers at the San Bernardino County Public Health Department, where Farook worked for five years as an inspector, said some of them had thrown him a baby shower. An online baby registry in Malik’s name listed a large box of Pampers, Johnson’s safety swabs, a car seat and baby wash. The idea of a new mother helping carry out a mass murder perplexed many. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who had a classified FBI briefing on the shooting Thursday, said leaving an infant for a suicide mission was “not something a woman would easily do.” “So it’s going to be very interesting for me to see what her background was, what level of animus she had, because she had to have a considerable level,” Feinstein said. Meanwhile, acquaintances and colleagues of Farook were struggling to reconcile the soft-spoken man they knew with the masked rampage killer who shot up a room filled with co-workers. At the Islamic Center of Riverside, where Farook had worshipped until about two years ago, mosque director Mustapha Kuko described him as quiet, private and devoted to Koran study. “He knows that we believe that to take one life is to take all life. So for him to do the opposite of what we as Muslims believe … I don’t know,” Kuko said. One victim, who worked in the same department as Farook, was also a member of the congregation, he said. “He shot her,” Kuko said. “Point blank.” The victim’s husband reported she is in stable condition, he said. Recently, Farook had worshipped at a San Bernardino mosque, Dar-Al-Uloom Al-Islamiyah of America. Farook was “a very nice person, very soft,” said Ali, a mosque regular. He said Farook had memorized the Koran, a rare accomplishment for even devout Muslims. According to law enforcement, Farook traveled to Saudi Arabia in 2013 during the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca that all Muslims who are able should perform at least once in their lives. Another congregant saw Farook at the mosque a few weeks ago. Gasser Shehata said Farook had hurt not just his victims, but his own child…. link |
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Post by Shoshanna on Dec 4, 2015 19:35:38 GMT -5
Awww...poor baby couldn't take what was probably good-natured teasing... Radicalized US Muslim was teased by colleagues about his Islamic beard and had clashed with Jewish co-worker over religion before he and Pakistani wife killed 14 at San Bernardino holiday party
Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, were killed in a gun battle with police after a mass shooting Police said 14 died and 21 were injured after suspects opened fire at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino Suspects left explosive devices rigged to a remote-controlled toy car at the center before fleeing in an SUV Farook reportedly clashed with co-worker Nicholas Thalasinos over religion - he was named as one of the victims Lawyers for Farook family said he was subjected to a series of disparaging comments about his Muslim appearance David Chesley, attorney acting for Farook's family, questioned accounts of massacre and whether information released by police and FBI was accurate Farook brought wife to US on a 90-day K-1 fiancee visa and she passedcounterterrorism screening Farook's older brother, Syed Raheel Farook, is a decorated Navy veteran honored for his role in the war on terror Police and federal agents searched a Redlands home, seizing 5,000 bullets, 12 pipe bombs and tools to make IEDs Investigators said Farook was in touch by phone and via social media with international terrorism subjects By Ben Ashford and Ruth Styles In San Bernardino For Dailymail.com and Khaleda Rahman and Snejana Farberov and Mia De Graaf For Dailymail.com Published: 07:57 EST, 3 December 2015 | Updated: 08:50 EST, 4 December 2015 The family of San Bernardino gunman Syed Farook have claimed that he had been teased by colleagues about his long Islamic beard hours after it emerged that he had also clashed with a Jewish co-worker over religion weeks before he and his wife killed 14 at a holiday party. While the exact motive for the massacre remains unclear, lawyers for the Farook family said the gunman had been subject to a series of disparaging comments about his traditional Muslim appearance. But they insisted that the health inspector had ‘brushed off’ the remarks and they remained at a loss to explain why he mercilessly gunned down 14 people and wounded 21, the majority his former co-workers, on Wednesday. Full story, pictures, and video at link |
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Post by PrisonerOfHope on Dec 5, 2015 22:27:51 GMT -5
CNN VIDEO: SB Jihad Murderers’ Family Members Blame Victims: Family All Shared the Same Islamic Views as Killers
CNN’s Chris Cuomo sits down with the San Bernardino shooters’ family attorneys. Chris Cuomo doesn’t disappoint in our low expectation of him. Remember how hostile he was with me? Watch him boot-lick the family members’ lawyers and leave so many questions unanswered. I am struck by the hostile, unrepentant tone of the family. The family blames the victims, saying that Farook’s co-workers once teased him about his beard. Liars. As if that might even come close to a justification. They go on to say that it had nothing to do with religion. “There is no evidence of any religious connection.” They said they met with the FBI and the FBI says there is no terror connection. “We were in interviews with the FBI for three hours today and there is no evidence.” “No one has been able to find anything.” The FBI has taken the lead in the case because it is terrorism and they have classified it as such. NY Times: WASHINGTON — On the day she and her husband killed 14 people and wounded 21 others in San Bernardino, Calif., a woman pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in a Facebook post, officials said Friday, as the F.B.I. announced that it was treating the massacre as an act of terrorism. “The investigation so far has developed indications of radicalization by the killers, and of potential inspiration by foreign terrorist organizations,” the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said at a news conference here. But he said that investigators had not found evidence that the killers were part of a larger group or terrorist cell. The couple died in a shootout with the police on Wednesday. Chris Cuomo does not pursue this. He never mentions that Tashfeen Malik pledged allegiance to the caliph of ISIS during the bloody slaughter, or that she was linked to Pakistan’s most radical mosque. The tone of the family is hostile. When asked about Farook’s trip to Saudi Arabia, they insist it was a righteous trip. He was making his pilgrimage — the haj — as if that somehow exonerates Farook. If anything, it’s an indictment. It is proof of his piety and religiosity, which is consistent with all jihad attackers. They go on to say the wife had no role in the murder or in the planning. This is morbidly comical, because according to numerous news reports, she is alleged to have “radicalized” her husband. They go on to say they were a very close-knit family. Very close — and yet in the same breath, we are expected to believe that none of the family members knew anything. Why didn’t Cuomo ask about the bomb-making factory in the garage? They never saw all the equipment and materials such an operation would require? The neighbors were suspicious but the family wasn’t? Attorney Muhammad said Tashfeen took the mother to the house. Are we expected to believe that the mother never saw anything? The constant use of the word “conservative” (a euphemism for fanatical and devout) is deliberate, too. The Farooks were the opposite of conservative: they were extreme. Asking about Tahfeen Malik, Cuomo asked: “Was she known to have different views on faith as the family?” Mohammed Abuershaid: “No, She’s Muslim and so are they. It’s the same view.” US officials told their Pakistani counterparts today that Tashfeen Malik was linked to the country’s most notorious mosque. Videos at linkAnd in this video, the family attorneys say they didn’t do it, insisting that Tashfeen was “too skinny to hold a gun.”
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